First Confirmed Record of Grey Seals in Greenland
2010 (English)In: Arctic, ISSN 0004-0843, E-ISSN 1923-1245, Vol. 63, no 4, p. 471-473Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The presence of grey seals has never before been confirmed in Greenland, but on 30 August 2009 a grey seal was photographed near shore in Southeast Greenland (59 53' N, 43 28' W) The seal was observed within a small group of islands that hosts a harbour seal colony The following day, a seal that might be a young grey seal was photographed at the same location Information from Inuit hunters suggests that grey seals periodically visit Greenland, but the pictures taken in summer 2009 are the first solid proof of this seal species in Greenland
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2010. Vol. 63, no 4, p. 471-473
Keywords [en]
grey (gray) seal, Halichoerus grypus, distribution, species range, northward expansion, climate change
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-66234ISI: 000285270300009OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-66234DiVA, id: diva2:467617
Note
authorCount :4
2011-12-192011-12-192022-02-24Bibliographically approved